Last days to have your say on our urban forest
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Consultation is closing soon on our plan to grow Bayside’s tree canopy cover from 16% to 25% by 2030.
Our draft Urban Forest Strategy contains 42 actions to improve how we monitor, increase, diversify and maintain tree canopy cover, and support residents to plant and keep their trees.
Under the Strategy, we’ll be planting more than 2,000 trees each year to promote ecosystem health and help to alleviate issues such as air pollution and the urban heat island effect.
Key actions to grow our urban forest include:
a targeted, ambitious, and diverse public tree planting program stronger protections for trees on private land encourage new canopy tree planting on private land active monitoring of the health and extent of our urban forest education and support services for residents to maintain treesThere are a few ways to provide your feedback including: a survey and an interactive plant a tree map to show us where you’d like to see more greenery in Bayside.
The draft Urban Forest Strategy was developed using community focus group feedback and technical and expert advice, and is a key part of delivering urgent, meaningful action on climate change as set out in the Climate Emergency Action Plan 2020 – 2025.
Consultation on the draft Urban Forest Strategy is open until 26 September 2021.
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